VOA标准英语2012--Chinese Symbols Prove Popular in US汉字在美国大受欢迎
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(一月)
Chinese Symbols Prove Popular in US
汉字在美国大受欢迎
From the moment Spaniards - or Vikings, some would say - first dropped anchor and encountered the natives whom the Spanish called “Indians” because they thought they had arrived in India - the land now known as “America” has been a multicultural 1 place.
And of course it’s much more so today. Just check out our faces and dialects and music.
Our signs are getting more multicultural, too. We see them in English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and more. Well, maybe it’s Chinese.
Mandarin 2 Chinese characters, called “Hanzi,” are hot right now. They’re a popular decoration on clothing and artwork and tattoos 4.
Just ask Tian Tang, a 35-year-old Chinese-American engineer, who works for an Arizona company that makes electrical semiconductors 5. Since his graduate-school days, he has maintained a website showing that an awful lot of the Chinese characters we see across America are just plain wrong.
Some are not even Chinese at all, but pretty little ink strokes that sort of look Chinese.
One of Tang’s postings shows a colorful shirt decorated with a powerful, leaping tiger. Next to the beast are nine Chinese characters. But they translate into gibberish - words such as “unicorn” and “chicken.” Not one of the characters has anything to do with tigers, or even cats.
Other Hanzi, delicately tattooed 6 onto a woman’s back, translate as “crazy diarrhea.” Surely this wasn’t what she ordered from the tattoo 3 artist.
So, America is a multicultural melting pot. But reading the signs doesn’t always tell you who you’re melting with.
“If people would stop making fools of themselves, my site would dry up,” Tang says.
- Children growing up in a multicultural society.在多元文化社会中长大的孩子们。
- The school has been attempting to bring a multicultural perspective to its curriculum.这所学校已经在尝试将一种多元文化视角引入其课程。
- Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
- Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。
- I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
- He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。
- His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的胳膊上刺满了花纹。
- His arms were covered in tattoos. 他的双臂刺满了纹身。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Crystals may be insulators, semiconductors, or conductors. 晶体可以是绝缘体，半导体，或导体。 来自辞典例句
- Semiconductors containing such impurities are called p-type semiconductors. 含有这类杂质的半导体叫做P型半导体。 来自辞典例句